nV's DX10 Cascades Demo available.

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If thats what the graphics will look like, i could say my $600 was well spent. This cards way ahead of its time, none of the games right now can show what its even close to capable of.

Gah. I almost want to install Vista....

Has anyone actually tried this demo?

The last time I saw this demo was when some nvidia guy showcased DX10 features on a Gamespot show using Windows XP and the demo ran on OpenGL.
So does this demo actually use Direct3D 10 now or is it just the same OpenGL demo from a few months ago?

It uses what I believe DX 10 run-time. At 1600x1200 maxed out on auto pilot it bogs down pretty bad maybe like 5 fps. 8800GTX over all I wasn't all that impressed with the performance.

Very nice, however dx10 games will be the true test and most certainly will be a year or more. I would assume there will be a new G-card by then.

nice screens dude looks stunning but i guess its much better trying the demo :b

hey, high speed, stfu. I'm running all my games at 1600x1200 w/ 16X AA, and 16X AS and my desktop at same resolution. I ran the demo at 1280x1024 for the sake of high frame rates because, after all, this is a brand new API and driver. would you like me to take some fcuking 1600x1200 screenshots for you pumpkin?

jesus h. christ.

by the time more demanding DX10 titles arrive, 1280x1024 (4aa 16af), might be considered [much] more resource hungry resolutions and settings than were seeing here... (if that makes sense)

I ran it at 1600x1200 and didn't notice any performance drop from 1280x960.

Overall it's not a very impressive demo...just rocks and water splashing on rocks. I get the sense the what I'm looking at can't be done on DX9...especially...the wet effect and the particle effect of the watter fall.

But you just don't feel..."Wow, this is a totally new level."

Geneticweopon is not the smartest tool in the shed so I wouldn't worry about him to much

You also have to take your CPU into consideration as it is a bottleneck to the 8800GTX.

Actually, he's not dumb; he's pretty hardcore when it comes to graphics and if he thinks you've made a foolish purchase, he isn't afraid to say it.

What I really can see is the change of global rendering compared to object rendering

I ran the demo again and it looked different. Maybe it's because when I first ran the demo it was right after the dx10 runtime installed.

*Why does the demo install the dx10 runtime if Vista already had dx10?*

Anyway, now I notice how impressive the displacement mapping is. When you zoom in on the structure you see little hills and craters that occlude each other but when you press 'W' you see that the mesh is flat.

I think it's probably technically impressive but just not visually stunning.

Note: be sure install the 100.64 drivers...the others gave me weird artifacts for waterfalls. And be sure to reboot after you install the demo.

Try Camtasia

Unfortunatley I don't think you're going to be able to capture a short clip and retain the visual quality. A lot of times with FRAPs you have to run the clip through another program to get it to the point where it's not choppy, and also compresses the file. Downside to that is, you lose quality.

Actually, he's not dumb; he's pretty hardcore when it comes to graphics and if he thinks you've made a foolish purchase, he isn't afraid to say it.


Well that post was not exactly a shining example of his intelligence either.

Thanks for trying.

I am not nearly as knowledgeable about this stuff as you guys are, but I have a new rig coming with vista premium and an EVGA GTS8800 card. Tell me if I am right: Crysis is not out yet. When it ships it will be the first DX10 game.

I am thinking of getting it just to see if it looks really cool.

Oh, one more thing. I see a lot of you talking about 1600X1200 resolution, which I think is my new monitors' native res. They are Samsung 204Bs (I got two of em. One for vertical and one for horizontal, and maybe both butted together for gaming if possible). Is 1600X1200 a common gaming format?

I have no opinion on geneticweapon's intelligence, but I think it is nice that jesse calls him "pumpkin"

Also a Company of Heroes patch is expected in late March. I doubt Crysis will be the first because I think they're waiting for the r600.

Argh...I can't take this waiting for dx10 games anymore...I'm going to freeze myself like Cartman till April .

Supreme Commander comes out next week (Feb 20)and will be the first dx10 game. It also happens to fully support quad-core which I believe is a first as well.

Though, it being an RTS game, the dx10 version probably isn't going to be dramatically different then its dx9 one. I'm more interested to see how the framerates compare on the 2 versions more than anything though.

SupCom WILL support DX10 in a later patch, as when it is released it will not support DX10, currently in the new COH 1.5 PATCH, if u goto "shader" in options and click on it you will see a "DX10" that is greyed out, which mean COH is going support DX10 hopefully in the coming 1.6 patch.

None taken... i'd of laughed too if I knew it were true.

Wow... i couldn't make thru 30 seconds of those. It IS time for u to hit the sack.

yes i am waiting to see what the patch for f.s.x. is gonna be like.
of course i,ll have to get vista and a dx10 card.

dont think my 68gt will cut it. especially as i now have a 20.1 inch lcd
monitor at 1680x1050.